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Hansen – The Broken Record Of Spectacularly Failed Predictions

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In 1988, Hansen predicted drought “in the next decade and beyond

Kentucky New Era – Google News Archive Search

The 1990s turned out to be the most drought-free decade in US history.

Contiguous U.S., Palmer Modified Drought Index (PMDI)

Ten years later he wrote this :

Empirical evidence does not lend much support to the notion that climate is headed precipitately toward more extreme heat and drought. The drought of 1999 covered a smaller area than the 1988 drought, when the Mississippi almost dried up. And 1988 was a temporary inconvenience as compared with repeated droughts during the 1930s “Dust Bowl” that caused an exodus from the prairies, as chronicled in Steinbeck’s Grapes of Wrath.

NASA GISS: Science Briefs: Whither U.S. Climate?

Now he is back making the same stupid predictions which he got wrong three decades ago.

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